Salomé
By Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
OSCAR WILDE (Dublín, 1854–París, 1900), poeta y dramaturgo irlandés, es considerado uno de los más célebres escritores en lengua inglesa de todos los tiempos, tanto por su provocadora personalidad como por su obra. Escribió relatos y novelas, como El retrato de Dorian Gray, poemas como el desgarrador La balada de la cárcel de Reading, y fue enormemente popular en el Londres victoriano por su exitosa producción teatral, como La importancia de llamarse Ernesto, y por su ingenio mordaz y brillante conversación.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Salome by Oscar Wilde was a very strange play. The usual witty, humorous dialogs which I expected in his play was totally absent. This actually turned out to be a very depressing book. I could not relate to the protagonist Salome one bit I felt she was an eccentric character. First of all Salome desiring a Baptist was something very odd and on top that she wanted him very badly and then when he rejected her at once she took a very drastic step to get him back which was horrible and disturbing. I am unable to understand what to make out of this play!!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wilde's writing is the center piece of this play about Herod, Salome, and John the Baptist. A fine, quick read, with a very fine introduction by Holbrook Jackson.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A haunting story based on a few short bible versus this play was the base of the opera. Libretto is almost identical. Excellent preparation if u plan to see the opera
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Note to Oscar -- stick to the witty repartee and the mocking of society that is your trademark. I could not sit through this wordy, heavy piece if my life depended on it. The guy who was beheaded was the lucky one.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I suppose its actually better than this old, twentieth century, South Pacific native could ever appreciate. If it was, indeed, written by Oscar Wilde, it is so different from his Victorian English comedic dramas that I couldn't recognize any threads of sisterhood to them. I love those and I don't love this.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Classic retelling of the story of The daughter of Herod and her wish of the Head of John the Baptist for dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very well-edited, newly translated three-language edition (French, English, Swedish) of Wilde's quite short and very quickly banned play. The annotations are very good, placing the script in a biblical and historical context, even noting where Wilde, for example, uses phrases in his other works. Not my fave tome by Wilde, but still very readable.
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Salomé - Oscar Wilde
SALOMÉ
A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT:
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF OSCAR WILDE
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TO MY FRIEND
LORD ALFRED BRUCE DOUGLAS
THE TRANSLATOR OF
MY PLAY
CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SALOMÉ
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
OSCAR WILDE
Oscar Wilde is one of the most widely recognized names in British literature. An accomplished journalist, poet, storyteller and playwright, Wilde is also well known as the leader of the Fin de siècle (end of the century) aesthetic movement that helped shape modern Britain. But Wilde's legacy is not merely about his aesthetic, as his dramatic personal life has sometimes overshadowed his literary accomplishments. He published widely, often to critical acclaim, before his life combusted in a controversial trial for indecent homosexual activity – a trial that saw the ruin of Wilde's personal and professional success. Often, Wilde's art imitates his life, both are complex and insistently demand the audience's attention, and undoubtedly this dramatic demand is what fuels Wilde's legacy today. Since his death in 1900, interest in Wilde's private life, particularly his sexuality, his criminal offences and his imprisonment, have never waned. One critic sums up Wilde's life by saying, His story is like a vivid Victorian soap opera with shocking twists and turns in plot lines, taking in on the way love, hate, sex, treachery, fame, success, conspiracy, blackmail, dramatic courtroom scenes, prison, redemption and finally death
(Marshall).
Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1854 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was the second son of the eccentric Sir William and Lady Jane Wilde. Sir William Wilde was a renowned philanthropist and surgeon, Lady Jane was a poet and fierce supporter of the Irish Nationalist Movement. In the mid 1860's, Lady Jane published a series of poems denouncing the Irish potato famine, dedicating the collection to her two sons, Willie and Oscar. Lady Jane had always wanted a daughter, so following popular practice of the time she dressed Oscar solely in girls' clothing for the first few years of his life. Wilde lived a quiet family life, marred only by the unexpectedly tragic death of his younger sister at the age of nine. He moved to Trinity College to study the classics at the age of 20. From there, Wilde went to study at Oxford, dropping his unfashionable Irish accent in favor of a stately English tone, and took a keen interest in fashion, particularly formalwear. He joined the Freemasons, as his father had done before him, and established himself as a dramatic aesthetician brimming with bitingly sarcastic wit.
Wilde thrived in London's superficial, artistic circles. While his literary work was not well received, Wilde was in high demand at dinner parties due to his sparkling wit. Wilde later reflected that during this period of his life he strove to honor the Pater quote, To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life
(Black). He strove to maintain its message in even the most mundane daily activities, which he desired to make beautiful. For the majority of his life, Wilde surrounded himself with elements of beauty, of art, and arguably, of surface vanity. He wore his hair long, decorated his home with peacock feathers and the frivolities of lilies and sunflowers alongside imported blue china. At the time, British culture did not like to be seen taking art seriously, and liked even less an artist who took himself seriously, as Wilde clearly did. Many critics of the aesthetic movement found interest in interior design, fashion, and art to be vacuous, and their arguments were only strengthened when Wilde made comments like, I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china
(Cohen). Despite the critics' arguments, Wilde toured through Britain and then America lecturing on the value of aesthetics, beauty, and art. He earned a fair sum and returned to England with the hopes of propelling his future with literary works that would challenge the hypocrisy of society and embrace the delicate intricacies of artistic beauty.
Upon returning home, Wilde married an acquaintance, Constance Lloyd, and fathered two sons: Cyril